Long time readers of this blog will be familiar with helminthic therapy, the life changing re-infection with parasitic worms championed by John Scott, a subscriber to the original FoodsMatter magazine. John wrote to us about an article we were carrying on hypoallergenic baby …
Helminthic therapy
Could worms (helminths) protect against COVID?
Long term followers of FoodsMatter will remember John Scott and his spectacularly successful interaction with parasitic hookworms. (From being virtually bedridden with ME, Crohn's Disease, migraine, restless legs and crippling rhinitis – and forced to live on elemental infant …
In memoriam – Chris White aka Cartoon Christopher
Those of you who remember the FoodsMatter magazine may even remember this front cover – one of Christopher's more exuberantly wonderful send ups of our very serious content!! In this case one of John Scott's early articles about helminthic therapy – the use of parasitic worms to …
Telling the medical wheat from the chaff
Ten days ago I had an exchange with Dr Janice Joneja which illustrated yet again the problems faced by conventional practitioners when dealing with little understood conditions such as autism. Dr Joneja had had an email from a dietitian who had recommended her article on …
The worms march on
While medical allergists stress about reaction thresholds for allergens – indeed, whether it will ever really be possible to set the 'population levels' that allergic consumer and the food industry are asking for – the helminthic therapy community continues to grow and prosper. …